St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-12

cherished revolution" the anarchists
were power indeed, and the police
were ignorant of danger. 1t is true that
the Chicago papers contained timely in
timations of the plots, but owing to the
peculiar attitude of high municipal
authorities, the articles were treated as
rank SenSatiOnaliSm.
Just one day before the time set for
the strikes Louis Lingg, the bomb
maker, slipped into his lodgings heavy,
suspicious looking box, three feet in
length. The box contained large in
voice of dynamite. Its delivery at
Lingg's lodgings was the first immediate
preparation for
THE BLOODY RESULT
of five days later. For many weeks pre-
viOus Lingg had been purchasing and
experimenting with dynamite as the
paid agent of one of the seven Interna-
tional groups" but subsequent events
showed beyond any reasonable doubt
that this particular explosive made the
bomb that was heard round the world.
The bomb, with fifty others manufac--
tured by Lingg under the auspices OF
the International association, which
furnished the money, and of which the
celebrated defendants were not men,
bers simply but leaders.
strikes began in earnest, and by night
fall when the first intelligent estimates
were Obtainable, $4,000 men walked the
streets idle. Promptly in the morning,
Sunday, when the churches throughout
the city were reSOunding with swelling
hosannas, the stuffy little Bohemian
hall on Emma street was crowded with
members of
THE LEHR AND WEIR VEREIN,
an inner circle of the omnipresent in
ternational. Detailed plans for the near
at-hand conflict with the police were
submitted by Editor Engel and listened
to by Spies lieutenant, Fischer. These
plans were the ones followed almost to
the letter at the Haymarket, but the de-
cision to do so was not reached at TINS
meeting. Instead, it was determined
to take action at another gathering of
the Lehr and Weir in larger hall and
more central location, to be assembled
within tWenty-four hours. This was to
be in Greif's hall, Monday night. May 3.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of which Spies
and Schwab were the editors and mana
gers, called together the armed men
who were to engage in this
SPECIFIC COMPACT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, pub
lished a few hours after the Bohemian
hall meeting, contained this caballStlc
legend: "Y-KOmme MOntag Abend."
(Y-Come Monday night. This was the
summons to the armed sections to meet,
as they did, Monday night at Grelf's.
The call was published again Monday
afternoon, indicating the Importance OF
the matters to come before the meeting.
The Sunday issue OF the Arbeiter mad a
significant article urging ''qulck and
immediate action" adding: "By Mon
day or Tuesday the conflict must have
reached it's highest intensity, else sue
cess will then be doubtful" Almost
before the ink on this could dry, Spies
was at the Sunday afternoon meeting OF
the Central Labor union arranging to
have himself dispatched to McCormick's
factory the following day to address the
thousands of strikers out along the Old
Black road.
From the top of freight car, on the
prairie near McCormick'S, next after
-Monday-Spies belched into the
ears of $4,000 excited strikers, mostly
foreigners, the hottest harangue ever
uttered by him in public. He spoke In
the German language, OF which ne IS
more master than of English. Inc
effect of his words was like magic.
'soN TO M'CORNIICK'S!"
was the cry. The -maddened horde,
urged forward by Spies, Lingg and
other daring anarchists present. rushed
at the great factory like so many wild
beasts. They had caught up boulders
and clubs on the way, and in an instant
the thousand windows of the factory
were being shivered in countless frag-
ments. Then it was that patrol wagons,
loaded with police, the horses covered
with foam, dashed through the crowd
from behind. 1t is admitted by Spies
that he ordered the mob, many
of whom were fourishing re-
volvers, to resist the attempt
of the police to quell the riot. Of course
the victors were the police, but That TO
Spies, according to his own accounts.
was not of main concern. The Dlood OF
workingmen had been drawn, and When
he satisfied himself that such result
was produced. the anarchist leader
coolly withdrew, though the battle was
at it's height. Taking street car direct
to the Arbeiter Zeitung office, Spies,
after a hurried consultation with
Schwab, Neebe and others, decided to
call the Haymarket massmeeting, and
then wrote =,
THE INFAMOUS ''REVENGE CIRCULAR.
Twenty-Five hundred copies were issued
as quickly as printers could work, and
everything was now ripe for the murder
compact meeting that night in Greif's
basement, the same that had been called
by the Arbeiter Zeitung that day and
the day before. In this connection the
exact wording of the circular, especially
the latter portion, foreshadoWlng the
slaughter OF the morrow. the fatal 4th
of May, possesses peculiar interest.
oPioo WtREWINCn, DEUENcFi